Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27
THE JEWISH MOTHERS REVENGE.
How Mile. Helene de Rothschild Was Pun
iShed

HOW Mile. Helene Qe ROthSchlId was Pun
ished.
| The sensation of the last week has
been the marriage of Mile. Helene Betty
de Rothschild to the Baron Van Zuylen
van Haar, of Belgium. It was a very
quiet affair, only the relatives and most
intimate friends of the bride and bride
groom being present. 1t is now some
months since Mile. Helene, the greatest
heiress in Europe, packed up her trunks
and went down to COmpeigne with all
her retinue Of servants, equipages, dogs
and horses, to say nothing of her COVER
ness and her lady companion, to stay at
the house of the aged physician of the
family, DR.. Raymond, and from thence
to launch the "three respectful summons"
required by French law as preliminary
to matrimony without parental consent,
at her mother, the widowed baroness Sol
ONION. There is not a solitary objection
to be made to Baron van Haar, except
that he is a Christian and Catholic, and
by no means wealthy. AS to the latter
disc ualifaation, it might have been over
looked, think, as the lady's fortune
amounts to fully $12,000.000, with as
much more In prospect when her mother
dies. She is sure to inherit the latter
fortune, despite the wrath of the old LADY
at the marriage, for, by the provision OF
the Code Napoleon, no parent can dlsln-
herit child.
The baroness gave in so far as to ac-
cord at last nominal consent to the nup
tials, but she was not present at the we'd
ding, and has, it is said already inferred
in effigy her d1sobedient daughter with all
the solemn fOrmalities of Jewish rites.
She is one of the most bigoted in relig-
ious matters of all that bigoted family,
and has not for years past SO much as
spoken to her two sisters, both of whom
married scions of the French nobility.
It is singular fact that while several of
the ladies of the Rothschild family have
marrie2 Shristians no male member of it
has evssS.oon known to do so. It is a
we'll known fact that Baron Alfred de
Rothschild was at one time deeply in love
with the beautiful and widowed Mrs.
Woodward formerly Miss Minnie King,
of Georgia, and now the Maschioness of
Anglesey), but his father, Baron James
of London, sternly prohibited the match,
and as he, by the English law, had the
power of disinheriting his son, the young
man was forced to yield to the parental
dictum. The Baron van Haar is said to
be one of the handsomest men in Eu-
rope; tall, athletic and finely formed, with
regular features and brilliant, expressive
eyes. He belongs to one of the noblest
families ia Belgium, his young cousin
and the head of the house being the
Prince de Looz Corswardem.
The prince was present at the wedding,
and was the first witness for the bride
groom, an Office that corresponds at
French marriage to that of "best man"
at an English Or American one. He is a
very handsome young fellow OF II, and
has more than once been In negotiation
for the hand of an American helress, be
being poor in pocket as he is noble by
birth. But he is a dissipated youth, and
his follies and frolics have heretofore him
dered him from marrying weu-thas is to
say, wealthy. The new Baroness van
Haar, the bride of the other day, is plain
and stout and strong minded, and some
thing over 80 years of age. She always
used to declare that she never would mar
ry, and strenuously resisted all the at
tempts of her family to make match
between herself and one of her de Roths
child cousins. She has had her own way,
and has espoused the man of her choice.
AS an American woman cannot but ap-
plaud the energy and independence with
which she put her matrimonial projects
into execution. May she and her hand
some husband be as happy as the day is
long. If the external lovliness of home
has anything to do with the bliss of its
inmates they certainly will be, for all
Paris holds no more exquisite abode than
the charming hotel on the Avenue du
Bots de Boulogne, in which the newly
welded pair are to take up their resi-
dence when they return to Paris from
their honeymoon journey.